Welcome to Maayke de Ridder picture library, featuring a range of garden - home and country topics shot in high quality images. Maayke de Ridder originally studied fashion design at the Arnhem Academy of Art and Minerva in Groningen. As later graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. After working as a fashion-and interior stylist and picture editor for a lot of different Dutch magazines she picked up photography. This background gives her ‘an other eye’ on her work as photographer and her specialization is editorial photography. Her work has meanwhile been published in many magazines and books.